George Bernard Shaw quotes.

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

“Do not fight with pigs - you will be smeared in mud but the pig will like it.”

“Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.”

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, today is a gift - that's why it's called the present.”

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

“The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”

“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”

“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

“Life is not meant to be easy my child, but take courage: it can be delightful.”

“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”

“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history; that man can never learn anything from history.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.”

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.”

“The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“The whole problem with the world is the fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts.”

“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“He who can, does.”

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.”

“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.”